"The reason we hired Schiano is because of what he is defensively; what he's done not only as a coordinator, but certainly as a head coach," Tampa Bay general manager Mark Dominik said. "It's the way he took the Rutgers program and what he built it into. That certainly was part of the decisionmaking process."

"Somewhere," Shelton writes, "the players of the Tampa Bay Bucs are having the same conversations you are having, complete with the 'who?' and the 'huh?' and the 'why?'"

"As coach hirings go, it is fair to say that Schiano does not arrive with instant gratification — not for fans and, I assume, not for players," Shelton continues. "At best, he is a give-him-a-chance kind of hire."